santa clarita diet

How can you tell when the zombie trend has finally been milked dry? When Drew Barrymore is playing one. Seriously, though, early buzz is positive about Santa Clarita Diet, a new Netflix series premiering February 3. Drew plays Sheila Hammond, a perfectly average real estate agent in California with a perfectly average family. The job pays well and she has a happy, loving marriage. Her only real problem, if you can call it that, is she’s secretly a zombie with a constant hunger for human flesh. There’s some real talent behind this: the creator is Victor Fresco, the man who brought us Better Off Ted for ABC and Andy Richter Controls The Universe for Fox. And the cast is great: in addition to the seasoned Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant (TV’s Justified) is playing Barrymore’s husband Joel, and Nathan Fillion (you know who Nathan Fillion is) plays the rival agent at Sheila’s office. Santa Clarita Diet retains the quirky tone of Fresco’s previous output. “There’s a real optimism to the show,” Barrymore